“This evening is about fashion’s future,” said Rick Helfenbein, president and ceo of AAFA. “We continue to find ourselves in a period of unsettling transition.” He said there’s profound change in the way the industry sells product and navigates the supply chain and this environment requires “the industry to be agile, to be visionary and most important, you have to be vocal.”

The AAFA represents 1,000 brand names and advocates on Capitol Hill and around the world, speaks on behalf of four million U.S. workers and accounts for $400 billion in annual U.S. retail sales.

Steven Kolb, ceo of the CFDA, noted that his organization’s foundation raises funds for such initiatives as HIV/AIDS, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

In accepting her award, shoe designer Davis said when she was growing up, she never was a “boy-band girl,” and didn’t have pictures of cute boys on the wall, but she did have a picture of Brooke Shields on her wall. “She’s my inspiration, you still are unbelievably gorgeous,” said Davis. She thanked Disney for giving her an amazing opportunity to design adult princess shoes. “The shoes have sold out,” she said. “Women get it and are inspired by it,” she said.

WWD, which has covered the fashion world for more than 109 years, covers “one of the most competitive industries on the planet,” said Shields. James Fallon, editorial director of WWD, and Paul Jowdy, chief business officer and publisher, WWD and Fairchild Live, accepted the award.

“The industry has changed over the years, so too has WWD. We recently stumbled across a masthead from WWD in 1926, which showed that at that time we were a six-day-a-week printed paper. But what it also showed was that WWD was global before global became a thing — with offices in 18 cities across the world. And now that we are a purely digital publication, we are more global than ever, covering the news and trends from China to Cleveland, Paris to Los Angeles. Our circulation is at a record high and our web traffic continues to climb,” said Fallon.

He said not many companies can trace their lineage back 245 years to a small village in Germany and “end up in a ballroom in The Plaza hotel.” He thanked his team, retail partners, AAFA and most important, “the millions of people who wear our product.

“You are our fans, and not just our fans, you are our passionate brand missionaries,” he said.

Fisher sits atop one of the largest women’s fashion companies to achieve B Corp certification, which generates more than $450 million in sales. She thanked her team as well as the AAFA for the work that it does “and the incredible power you have in the world to make a difference. You hold $400 billion of retail sales, and it’s amazing to think of the power that you hold. I want to thank you for the possibilities.”

She said her teams are obsessed with simplicity and timeless design and try to support women in the hope that they feel comfortable and confident. “Simple is really, really hard. Design is a powerful opportunity to change the world and make a difference,” said Fisher.

“Our industry is one of the worst polluters. I don’t want to be a downer. I think it’s a huge opportunity. Every day, we can actually make a difference in this crisis,” she said, noting the U.N. says we have 10 to 12 years, before we’re in a literal catastrophe and explaining her company’s Vision 2020 idea to make it 100 percent sustainable.

Schottenstein said he asked his son what he thinks the most challenging thing was to be successful. His son replied that it was to make people care. “We have a group of leaders who care and believe in the brand,” said Schottenstein. Today, Schottenstein said American Eagle is the number-one denim brand among people 15 to 25 years old in the U.S. “And for women’s denim, we’re number one,” he said. “Our goal over the next few years is to be number one, period, in denim in the U.S.”

“Making money and giving back is a necessary part of being a successful company,” he said.

In 2016, he partnered with Delivering Good and started an annual one million pairs of socks initiative throughout the industry. “Socks are the number-one-requested item in homeless shelters,” he said. When he looked at the numbers and saw that they’ve only collected 19,000 pairs of socks through April 15, he decided Monday to donate 500,000 pairs of socks to get closer to the initiative’s one-million-pair goal.

Social Studies

You might not know who Beanie Feldstein is now, but the breakout star is poised to be a name synonymous with comedy. ⁣⁣
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Beanie stars in @OliviaWilde's directorial debut "Booksmart," opening today. The film has been dubbed the female "Superbad" — which is somewhat ironic since Beanie is actor Jonah Hill's younger sister. ⁣⁣
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“She is sort of like Paris Geller meets Lisa Simpson with a little bit of Sandra Bullock in ‘Miss Congeniality.’ I liked the idea of showing that a girl can be silly and loose with her friends and also be really intense and kind of biting at school,” Beanie said of her character, Molly.⁣ ⁣
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The actress also said that Wilde’s take on the story is “fresh and honest” and she was “whip-smart” in her directorial debut.⁣
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It looks like Kris isn't the only momager in the Kardashian-Jenner family. ⁣
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Kim Kardashian is setting up son Psalm West for success in the fashion, beauty and home sectors — at the ripe old age of two weeks. ⁣
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On May 18, Kardashian filed a trademark for her son for “Psalm West” under her company, Kimsaprincess, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. ⁣
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Now all of the West children have trademarks filed under their names. ⁣
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Natalie Portman, Uma Thurman, Kate Moss, and Roger Federer at the Moët & Chandon in France. ⁣
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The intimate dinner celebrated the 150th anniversary of its Brut Imperial blend, at its just-reopened Château de Saran overlooking the vineyards of the Champagne region in the east of France.⁣
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There were fireworks, towering pyramids of Champagne glasses — plus vines and VIPs as far as the eye could see. ⁣
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Shailene Woodley has no desire to keep up with the superficial standards of Hollywood.⁣
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“If you look at Hollywood — and I’m no saint in this regard — but every single time somebody gets a little bit more famous, they get a little bit thinner, and they get a little bit blonder, and they get a little bit more defined in their face,” Woodley says. ⁣
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“There’s sort of this sense of machinery that can happen to people in the limelight, and I was very fortunate also at a young age to work with so many incredible, strong women who were already a little rebellious in their own ways against the machinery that can be this industry.” ⁣
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Beauty: @keithcarpenterhair & @tyronmachhausen ⁣
Market: @andrew_shang & @elmercer⁣

The Prada Group is going fur-free. ⁣
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The company will no longer use animal fur in its designs or new products, starting from the spring/summer 2020 women’s collections. ⁣
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Creative director Miuccia Prada explained that the company “is committed to innovation and social responsibility,” and that its fur-free policy “is an extension of that engagement.”⁣
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Soccer superstar Lionel Messi is launching an apparel collection. ⁣
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The Argentine athlete, who captains both FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team, has partnered with MGO, a brand portfolio company whose chief creative officer is Tommy Hilfiger’s sister, Ginny Hilfiger, to create Messi.⁣
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The premium lifestyle brand with “a sporty edge” will be primarily men’s wear but will include a few women’s tops as well, according to Hilfiger.⁣
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Hilfiger said despite his fame and wealth, Messi “is a really humble, generous and kind person and a great role model. He has been involved since we started talking to the Messi family two-and-a-half years ago when we presented the idea to them. ⁣
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Once upon a time in Cannes, @ellefanning had another major red carpet-moment in @Dior.
Tap the link in bio to read what growing up in Hollywood was like for the youngest-ever jury member at Cannes.
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Shailene Woodley is an all-in or not-at-all kind of woman — leading her to get the reputation as the hippie of Hollywood. ⁣
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She views her experience of “breaking out,” if you will, as a kind of shepherding by older, wiser female costars along the way, women she says helped her steel herself against the superficial demands of the industry. ⁣
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One of those women, @reesewitherspoon, spoke to us about Woodley's inspiring performance on "Big Little Lies." “Her portrayal of a woman who is both a survivor of sexual assault and a single mother raising her child alone in a new community is one of the most truthful performances I’ve ever seen. There is a scene in episode two of this season where Jane explains her assault to Ziggy that moves me to tears every time I see it," Witherspoon said. ⁣
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Woodley's acting choices have earned her a reputation for being a talented and utterly professional one to watch, but it’s her candid, unabashed activism in real-life that people are taking notice of. ⁣
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“I think it’s very easy for all of us to be comfortable in our bubbles and to be comfortable in the lives of privilege that a lot of us live, to be comfortable in our own space, in our own opinions, in our own forms of what we think is right or wrong, black and white, justice and non-justice — but ultimately until every single person on this planet feels like they are treated like a proper human being, I’m not going to stop because more than anything, I’m just somebody who deeply feels,” Woodley said.
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